Energy Supplies

Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the question of the future of energy supplies has occupied economists.

A cut-off of energy supplies between two neighbouring countries, which lasted just a couple of days, could have been trivial.

The IEA was established in 1974 after the oil crisis in an attempt to try to safeguard energy supplies to the west.

And China's desire to secure energy supplies has led it to do deals with governments that western powers consider unsavoury.

Poles retort that they bought it for political reasons, to help Lithuania survive a Russian squeeze on energy supplies.

trade routes in the Mediterranean and Arabian seas, on which global commerce and energy supplies depend, were made secure.

The tense relationship between Russia and the EU is defined by the fact that the EU is increasingly dependent on Russian energy supplies.

To date, unrest in Egypt has led to a limited and localized disruption in energy supplies from or through the country.

The United States and China are committed to developing their domestic energy supplies through open markets and broad based competition.

For now, body energy supplies only a small fraction of the gym's needs, but the amount should increase as more machines are adapted.

"The European commission feels that energy supplies have to be sold in a free market, " said its spokesman, Ferran Tarradellas Espuny.

At the same time that the U. S. has secured its energy supplies, it has also brought in allies under its protective military umbrella.

Stopping Exxon's Chinese plan would keep all Russian gas out of China, despite its thirst for energy supplies.

Ofgem, the energy regulator, says the free market is not providing the investment needed to safeguard energy supplies in the UK.

Mr Sutherland said fears that Russia had a stranglehold over Europe's energy supplies were misplaced .

As oil prices tick higher, Asia's import-dependent consumer nations are feeling less secure about their energy supplies by the day.

Our components process electrical signals, protect electronic circuitry and control energy supplies.

The sky will fall down to block energy supplies and ammunition .

Putin's third empire project also includes, crucially, a tightening of Moscow's politicised grip on Europe's strategic energy supplies.

Indeed, Yemen is a showcase for Total, whose experience here shows how far an oil company will go these days to unearth new energy supplies.

In the pre-pipeline era, the canal was a key conduit for energy supplies from the Middle East to Europe.

Instead the reasons are social and economic: China is concerned about secure energy supplies and pollution control.

The consequences for Japan's energy supplies and economy could be equally catastrophic.

Adrenaline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies.

Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej urged the delegates to push for reforms that ensure environmentally sustainable energy supplies.

Clean-tech investment is also driven by concerns about the security of energy supplies, says Bruce Huber of Jefferies.

Majorities also said countries had a right to go to war to ensure adequate energy supplies.

Lighting, heating, and air-conditioning in the skyscrapers strain energy supplies.

And Indian businesses lament the opportunities to secure energy supplies from Myanmar, lost to their Chinese rivals.

Muni says Burma has also discussed brokering new deals for critical energy supplies including oil.

Your heart rate increases, which elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies.

It also touched on China's excessive investment in steel and insatiable appetite for energy supplies.

He says the region's nuclear programmes are partly fuelled by concerns about future energy supplies.

Recent uprisings in the Mideast and North Africa are just one example of external threats to energy supplies.

Britain, Poland and the Baltic states argue that the EU must diversify its energy supplies.

This means that societies are not removing carbon from of their energy supplies.

Using more renewable energy sources will also make our energy supplies more secure.

According to the PTI report, China may convert the port into an oil pipeline hub to augment its energy supplies from the Gulf.

But the search for more secure and diverse energy supplies is increasingly important to UK foreign policy.

That is of great concern to the Chinese government, where officials worry about the security of energy supplies from abroad.

There are very difficult decisions ahead on energy supplies, and in particular nuclear.

China, is looking to the Middle East for stable energy supplies.

No country in the world has developed its economy without abundant energy supplies.

Now the US is competing for energy supplies with new and hungry addicts.

China sees it as an important source of gas and other energy supplies.

The Danes secured raw materials and energy supplies.

If there is a broad move to defer projects in coming months, concern about the impact on future energy supplies would grow.

Do we really need to spend money on solar panels, windmills and battery-operated cars when we have ample energy supplies in this country?

"These potential deals fit the Chinese strategy to secure energy supplies. "

Exactly . For example , the rising costs of commodities and energy supplies over which we have no real control .

Pakistan can also help channel energy supplies from the Gulf to China.

Developing home-grown renewable energy means we can both diversify and secure our energy supplies.

Both need to expand energy supplies beyond oil and gas.

China to take steps to ensure energy supplies in 2011.

While such moves help extend local energy supplies, they can't help in another challenge.

Reliance on coal for energy supplies is unlikely to change at present.

With the rapid development of the national economy, the contradiction between energy supplies and demands is more and more prominent.

Because it lacks abundant natural resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, Japan imports more than 80 percent of its energy supplies.

He questioned the allies' ambition to play a global role (not just militarily, but also in cyber-security and protecting energy supplies).

The impact of higher oil prices would lead to the development of alternative energy supplies.

But a big obstacle to expanding the reach of drip irrigation in Africa has been a lack of reliable energy supplies;

The country is particularly vulnerable to any interruption in energy supplies

The West's recession spurs China's hunt for energy supplies in its own backyard

Shale gas will improve global security of energy supplies

and hydropower resources, such as gas prices and energy supplies tight for high manufacturing cost burden;